Mike Kellin
Also Known As: Myron Kellin
Biography: Mike Kellin (April 26, 1922 – August 26, 1983) was an American actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Birthday: April 26, 1922
Deathday: August 26, 1983
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Wonderful Country
Overview: Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self-defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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At War with the Army
Overview: Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his former partner, Private First Class Korwin. Puccinelli is desperately trying to get transferred from his dull job to active duty overseas. Meanwhile, all Korwin wants is a pass to see his wife and new baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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God Told Me To
Overview: A repressed Catholic NYPD detective uncovers a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah with a perverse plan for the soul of mankind.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-22
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Overview: An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-04
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Hell Is for Heroes
Overview: World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-26
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The Boston Strangler
Overview: Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-08
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Cover Me Babe
Overview: Student filmmaker lets nothing stand in the way of his getting a studio contract.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Sleepaway Camp
Overview: After a terrible boating accident, Angela Baker is sent to Camp Arawak, where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of various campers.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-18
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Echoes
Overview: An artist is plagued by nightmares of a love triangle and murder. A psychic says the dream figure is his brother, a "troubled soul" from an ancient past life. Nearly born as his twin but miscarried, this past life rival now breaks through in nightmares in attempt to repeat history.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Incident
Overview: Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-05
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Just Before Dawn
Overview: In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest ranger not to venture forth. Soon after they set up camp, they begin hearing strange noises, encounter a mysterious singing girl and start disappearing one by one.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-14
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Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor
Overview: Allison Kramer suffers recurring nightmares and selective amnesia, returning to camp to discover the truth as the secrets of infamous killer Angela Baker are revealed. [Production for this sequel to 'Sleepaway Camp III' (1989) was shut down after Double Helix Films went bankrupt in 1992, though the film was officially completed using archive footage and released on-demand beginning in 2012.]
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-23
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Invitation to a Gunfighter
Overview: In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-14
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Riot
Overview: A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-15
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The People Next Door
Overview: A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of drug addiction and ultimate committal to a mental ward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-26
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The Last Porno Flick
Overview: Two young men wanting to make a porno movie raise money from their family and friends by claiming that they're making a religious film. Complications ensue when the porno is a hit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-11
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The Phynx
Overview: A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-06
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On the Yard
Overview: Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's power, he learns the vicious price of defiance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-16
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The Tenth Level
Overview: Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-26
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The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Overview: William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles." With the aid of his niece, the school's star football player, a local tough-turned-college student, and the college dean, he investigates two related murders that occurred nearly 40 years apart.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-09
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The Art of Crime
Overview: A Romani antique dealer, who is also a private detective, gets involved in a murder case when one of his colleagues is accused of committing the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-03
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Terror at Alcatraz
Overview: Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, respectively, involved in the race to find the buried treasure of Al Capone on Alcatraz Island at the former prison where he was imprisoned.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-04
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Fools' Parade
Overview: When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his 40-year sentence. This attempt is met with great resistance from a corrupt prison official and the banker who issued Mattie the check.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-18
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Paradise Lost
Overview: Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them. Opened on Broadway in 1935, it became one of the Group Theatre's most controversial plays and Odets' favorite.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
Overview: Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-15
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Paternity
Overview: Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia. After coming into contact with several children, Buddy decides that he is ready to be a father. Buddy decides to hire a surrogate mother in the hope of having a son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-02
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Freebie and the Bean
Overview: Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-25
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The Mountain Road
Overview: In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-15
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Banning
Overview: A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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The Tragedy of King Lear
Overview: Mike Kellin as Lear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Overview: Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-29
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The Jazz Singer
Overview: A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-17
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So Fine
Overview: While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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The Connection
Overview: An out-of-work newspaperman in need of money becomes the go-between for a jewel thief and an insurance company that wants to settle.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-27
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The Great Impostor
Overview: Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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Assignment: Munich
Overview: Undercover agent, using his bar as a front, battles three killers to find a stolen fortune.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-30
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Midnight Express
Overview: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-31
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Lonelyhearts
Overview: Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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Hurricane Smith
Overview: South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-02
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The Catcher
Overview: An ex-cop and a Harvard graduate team up to become bounty hunters.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-02
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Girlfriends
Overview: A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-11
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A Clear and Present Danger
Overview: The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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Nightside
Overview: The story of three people - a press agent, a private detective and a nightclub owner - whose careers require them to spend most of the night awake and on the prowl. In the pilot episode, Carmine manages to rescue Smitty's night club from being demolition and manages to resurrect a fading star's acting career.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-05
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So Young, So Bad
Overview: Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of the girls by the matrons, it takes a rebellious girl named Loretta to open his eyes. Assisted by a female staff member, Jason finally gets proof of the abuse and threatens the head of the school with exposure unless he is given full rein to run things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-20
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